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A. A. FREBMAN. WHISTLING 0R MUSICAL BATTLE.

No. 550,751. Patented Dec. 3,1895.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT A. FREEMAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE SPECIALTY NOVELTY COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

WHlSTLlNG OR MUSICAL RATTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 550,751, dated December 3, 1895.

Application filed September 5, 1895. Serial No. 561,482. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT A. FREEMAN, a citizen of the United. States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Whistling or Musical Battles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to that class of toys known as whistling or musical rattles, and in such connection it relates particularly t0 the construction and arrangement of such a toy.

The principal objects of my invention are, first, to provide a simple, durable, and amusing toy which combines the functions of a whistle or vibrating reed and a rattle, and, second, to provide a rattle wherein the box usually containing the rattle pellets or substances is open at one end and contains a whistle or reed adapted to shift back and forth in the box as the rattle is manipulated and in its movement in the box to give forth both a whistling or musical and rattling noise.

My invention consists of a rattle wherein the box which usually contains the rattling substance is open at one end and is traversed by a traveling whistle or reed; and my invention further consists in a whistling or musical rattle constructed and arranged in substantially the manner hereinafter described and claimed.

The nature, characteristic features, and scope of my invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, and in which Figure 1. is a front elevation, partly sec tioned and broken away, of the toy, showing the whistle in position in the rattle-box and the open end of said box. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, looking at the open end of the rattle-box; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a modification in which the rattle-box is traversed by one or more vibrating reeds.

Referring to the drawings, a represents the handle, and b the box, of an ordinary childs rattle. One end of this box 0 is open. Within the box I) is placed a whistle d, which consists of the two united convex plates or disks d, perforated, as at 61 and held at one end of a short tube or sleeve 6, as indicated in section at Fig. 1. The tube or sleeve 6 is of slightly-smaller external diameter than the internal diameter of the box b, so that the sleeve e can slide back and forth in the box 12 as the rattle is agitated. The air which is displaced in the movement of the tube e passes through the perforation d of the whistle, thus causing the same to give a whistling signal or noise. The tube 6 in its movement in the box also rattles against the sides and ends of the box.

The toy by preference is made of tin or other cheap material; but I do not wish to limit myself to the making of the same of such material.

The forward end 0 of the rattle, which is open, is flanged, as at g, to prevent the whistle and tube from escaping from the box, as well as to prevent a sharp edge at the opening of the box.

In the modification illustrated at Fig. 3 the tube 6 carries a series of vibrating reeds or similar musical signals h, which when the rattle is manipulated will give off a musical sound or sounds.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In a combined whistle and rattle, a box open at one end, and a disk whistle adapted to traverse the inside of the rattle box, when the rattle is agitated, substantially as described.

2. In a musical or whistling rattle, a box open at one end, a tube of slightly smaller diameter than the interior of said box, said tube adapted to traverse the interior of the box as the rattle is agitated, and means for producing an audible signal at one end of said tube, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT A. FREEMAN.

Witnesses:

J. WALTER DOUGLASS, THOMAS M. SMITH. 

